[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[David Nadlinger]

On Tuesday, 28 May 2013 at 08:02:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/28/2013 12:06 AM, Don wrote:
>> On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 18:43:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Fibers should be implemented by mapping a 4K page with no 
>>> access rights at the
>>> end of each stack.
>>
>> We do that in our code. Fibers are virtually unusable without 
>> it, it is
>> incredibly easy to get a stack overflow, and they are horrible 
>> to debug.
>
> Dang, that needs to get folded into D2!

I'm 100% sure we already do this for Windows, as I've had my 
share of fun with the Fiber implementation there. Might not be 
the case for the various Posixen, though.

David